Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-23
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vhsn news reached this coast that
the foreign population of Honolulu were
= . ferment at the exposed corruptions
of the Hawaiian Government we pre-
a;cted that the sigus were por'eh'ou'
- rsvo,ution. and that we might soon
look for the downfall of kalakaua anu
III. cabinet. The fact is, no community
,o,,no.ed of Americans and Europeans
- tha extent that Honolulu is, would
,a.u to,erate the official rascalities ana
h;rh. handed acts of government when
..ts A. defiance all the safeguards of law
and treaty and the principles OF mora,
conduct The king has been charged
18th the most unkingly crimes. Not
only charged. but convicted before 'he
tribunal Of public opinion. he has not
bss;tated to receive bribss for monopoiies
wh;cb he had no constitutional right
IN grant; but he has been guilty OF 'he
s,,ther meanness of pocketing the brides
and refusing to carry out his contract
Members of his cabinet have illegally
sc;zed arms imported under the sanction
of the laws. Drunkenness and dsbauch-
erv have run riot in all the the depart
ments of the government. and the citi'
gems have been subjected to the license
and ;nsults of a debauched soldiery.
yenaiity and peculation have been the
rule in public works and public con-
tracts: and the taxes of the people have
been eaten MP in official extravaganza
and ministerial corruption. Were
such a government ruling over merely a
native population, it might by the
assertion of its power, hold it in sub
lection. But a community. to borrow
the ringing diction of a great historian,
which has heard the voice of truth and
experienced the pleasures OF liberty-'n
which the merits of statesmen and OF
systems are freely canvassed-in which
obedience is paid, not to persons, but to
Iaws-in which magistrates are regarded,
not rs the lords, but as the servants OF
the public-in which political warfare is
reduced to a system of tactics,-such a
com muuity is not easily reduced to SER
yitude. Beasts of burden may easily be
managed by a new master. But the
wild ass will not submit to the bands; the
unicorn will rot serve and abide by his
crib, nor will leviathan hold out bis
nostrils to the hook. The representa-.
tive men of the United States who have
made the Hawaiian Islands what they
are-who brought them out Of the dark
aess of savagery into the light of eivIli-
zatiou-who have erected Christian
temples on the rui7 Of heather affairs
who have turned the SCARED and volcanic
face of nature into gardens and plants-
tions-suoh men are not going to per-
NIT their rights to be trampled upon and
their property spoliated by govern
ment that they justly despise. That
they mean to assert their freedom,
even by physical revolution, is apparent
from the fact that the cargoes of all re-
cent departures for Honolulu embrace
large invoices of rifles, revolvers ard
ammunition. When these arrive on the
csplanade they will be placed in hands
that will make short work of Kalakaua
and his standing army. Whether Re.
public or a protectorate shall emerge
out of the collapse of the Kanaka regime,
it will be the duty of the United States
to see to it that no other power gain
precedence over ours in the Islands.
American interests are too closely inter
woven with those of our commercial rep.
resentatives there to permit us to view
with nconcern any political change that
may take place in the Hawaiian capital.
The preponderance of foreign wealth
invest ed in the Islands is American, and
of the foreign residents Americans are
largely in the majority. Therefore
whatever change may take place in the
government must be such as will ap-
prove itself to the American sentiment
there, and if any other power take ad.
vantage of the disturbances that are
almost sure to arise to gain ascendancy,
it will be the duty of our government to
countercheck it at once. From the time
that General Ed. McCook was sent there
ia 1866 as resident minister, the policy
of our government has always been to
treat the Islands from the standpoint
that we had a reversionary interest in
them. When they pass away, as they
are bound TO do before long, from the
con trol of their native chiefs, they must
come under the protection of the Amer
ican government. either as colony or
as aa annexed State of the Union,
THE officers of the Fidelity National